Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decline and the commodity slide of 1920. This time the farmers had a cushion of cash to fall back on. Their banks were bulging with savings. Said Karl Wagner, an Iowa hog-raiser: "Very few of us farmers are out on a limb. We've got bonds stuck away for occasions like this. I'm staying in business...
...Guildsman and no crusader, leathery Bert Andrews, 46, had stubbornly stuck to his reporter's last through seven years as the Trib's top capital hand. A Washington assignment offers subtle temptations: if a reporter is not careful he may turn into a pundit, or a cocktail-swigging socialite, or become a power behind some politician's throne. Such lures have left Andrews cold. In Albany and way points (Sacramento, Chicago, the Paris Herald, and Manhattan), he learned to keep his nose for news clean, and his news sources at arm's length...
...stock, a fast-moving, on-again-off-again deal that baffled the sharpest-eyed in Wall Street. Fortnight ago, Otis & Co. announced that 900,000 shares of the new issue had been "sold." But most of it had not been sold to the public; the underwriters had been stuck with it. As they had agreed to pay K-F $11.50 a share and offer it to the public at $13-and the stock was selling below the offering price-they could not unload it on the public without risking a loss. If the stock dropped lower, the underwriters stood...
...problems are varied and vexing. There is the human element: the smiling lady, who, for some mysterious, feminine reason, kept plugging Lipton's Tea as she brewed a pot of her sponsor's Tender Leaf. There are mechanical embarrassments, too: the Gillette razor that got stuck in the middle of a display of its , simple operation...
Until the Warsaw government's rigged elections in January 1947, Lane stuck to his post. After that, seeing no hope of Poland's adherence to the Yalta declaration ("free and unfettered elections"), he quit, and returned home to write the saddening story of what he had seen...